Orange Park, FL is a diverse community with a rich political history. It has long been an important center for the Republican Party in Duval County and its surrounding counties. The City of Orange Park is currently administered by a nonpartisan mayor-council form of government, which means that elected representatives are not affiliated with a particular political party. In each election cycle, citizens are able to vote for members of the Orange Park City Council who represent their interests in setting policy and making decisions regarding city infrastructure, services, budgets, and more. Elections also include local school board seats, county and state offices, as well as federal congressional representatives. With so much diversity and representation in politics, it’s no surprise that Orange Park is an engaged community when it comes to matters of local politics.
The political climate in Orange Park, FL is moderately conservative.
Clay County, FL is very conservative. In Clay County, FL 30.7% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 67.8% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 1.5% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Clay county remained overwhelmingly Republican, 67.8% to 30.7%.
Clay county voted Republican in every Presidential election since 2000.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index
Orange Park, FL is moderately conservative.
Clay County, Florida is very conservative.
Jacksonville Metro Area is somewhat conservative.
Florida is leaning conservative.
The BestPlaces liberal/conservative index is based on recent voting in national elections, federal campaign contributions by local residents, and consumer personality profiles.
VoteWord™
Displaying 20 years of Presidential voting, visualized in one word.
Orange Park, Florida: R R R R R R
How It Works:
Here at BestPlaces, we were looking at the voting patterns since the 2000 election and realized that we could express the results of each election as one letter. R if the Republican Party candidate won, D if the Democratic Party candidate won and I if the Independent Party candidate won. The six elections (2000, 2004, 2008, 2012, 2016, 2020) would be expressed as six-letter word (R R D R R).
Then we went a little further and added the dimension of magnitude. If the difference of victory was greater than 10 percent, the letter is upper case, and lower case if the difference was less than 10 percent. This allows us to see interesting voting patterns at just a glance.
Here's the VoteWord for Iowa d r d d r. In the last six elections the state has been closely contested, voting narrowly for the Republican Party candidate in 2016 and 2020 after voting for the Democratic Party in 2008 and 2012. Virginia (r r d d d D) has voted for the Democratic Party in the last three elections.
Individual Campaign Contributions in Orange Park, FL
In the last 4 years (2018-2021), there were 932 contributions totaling $43,305 to the Democratic Party and liberal campaigns, averaging $46 per contribution.
In the last 4 years, there were 763 contributions totaling $196,189 to the Republican Party and conservative campaigns, averaging $257 per contribution.
(source: Federal Election Commission)